The Delta independent., 1887-06-07
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

will meet in Philadelphia next year.
The City of Mexico was severely
shaken up by earthquakes last week.
1t is estimated that the decrease In
the public debt for May was $40, ,ooo, 900.
The damage to timber IN the Upper
Michigan Peninsula by fires is estimated at
g, ,00O, ,OOO
Major Ben. Perley Poore, the veter-
an Washington correspondent, died in that
city last week.
The death of ex-Vice President
Wheeler is expected at any time. lie is
unconscious.
The synod of the Reformed Presby-
terian Church ..of America protests against
Sunday mails.
The Canadian Senate has declared
that divorce obtained in the U nited States
is worthless in Canada.
Mary Anderson is said to have pur-
chased $6O. 900 worth of property at Man
chester-by-the-Sea, Mass.
Mrs. CHAR .Cignarole, ..who killed
her husband in New York, has been sen.
fenced to hang July % next
Two hotels at Santa Cruz. California.
the Swanton and Santa Cruz houses, burned.
Loss, $50 900; partly insured.
By an accident on the Pennsylvania
railroad last Saturday eight persons were
killed outright and six injured.
A Vienna paper mentions project
to make the Pope King of Palestine under
the protection ofthe Catholic Powers.
George W. Childs offers to place a
Longfellow window in Memorial Hall at
Harvard College, to cost not less than $l0.-
COO.
Up to the present date eighty two
newspapers of Texas favor Prohibition,
while but twenty-one have taken the other
side.
The International Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers held their annual
meeting in Columbus, Ohio, last week with
800 engineers present
There are murmurs over the awards
at the National Drill. 1t is claimed that
tlc NtEt given
prizes than they earned.
On account of the prevalence of pleu-
ro-pneumonia in Scotland importations Of
cattle from that country into the United
States have been prohibited.
The Postmaster of Fort Lincoln. Da-
kota, was accused Of Irregularities and he
disappeared. His body has since been
found in the Missouri River.
The Government organ in Rome
says reconciliation between the Vatican
and the Italian Government Is only Ques-
ton Of time and that Italy can wait calmly,
English engineers are reported to be
actively for;ifying Herat They propose to
make the place so strong tha; a garrison of
days.
During March and April 5000 Chi
nese left Hong Kong for the United
States. fearing that the proposed new treaty
might deprive them Of some of their privi-
leges.
Eighty-four Irish emigrants who
were detained on the Allan steamer Scandi-
navian at Philadelphia are to be forwarded
to their friends at the expense of the Brit
ish Government
Files. of Chicago. and Reagan, of
Brooklyn, fought nearly three hours in a
dancing pavilion thirty miles from New
York. and in the for;y-fourth round Files
was knocked out
American and Mexican troops united
in an attack upon gang of bandits on the
Rio Grande. killing one, wounding several
and capturing number. \ large amount
Of stolen stock was found.
William Showers was arrested at
Annville. Pennsylvania. on the charge of
numbering two illegitimate sons of his
daughter. The victims were only and 5
years old. He has confessed.
One white and two colorcd convicts
in attempting to escape from Kentucky
camp mortally wounded the overseer,
and all OF them were in turn shot by the
guard, two with fatal results.
There were $50 business failures in
the United States and Canada during the
week against 1s' for the same week in last
year. Only small portion Of them oc-
CURED In the Western States.
Paris is greatly excited over the
formation of cabinet which leaves out
General Boulanger. Great crowds parade
the streets shouting Long live Boulanger,'
1--WE will have him!' etc, etc.
The falling of a candle in the Cstho-
lie Cathedral at chihuahua, Mexico. caused
q lpanic among the people. In, the rush
several children were killed and number
Of women were severely injured.
DIR. McGlynn has decided not to 60
to Rome. In reply to the suggestion that
by presenting his land theories there he
might obtain powerful allies, he replied it
would do no good; ait would be necessary
to club these ideas Into the heads Of the
men there"
One hundred feet of the Mullen tun-
mel on the Northern Pacific road is blocked
by q cave-in. The company will build two
miles Of switch back to enable trains to run
while the tunnel is undergoing repairs.
o. b. Willard. editor of the Sher-
man Comfy News, was shot and killed
at Loup City, Nebraska, a few days ago by
B. T. Richardson, editor OF the North
western. The shooting was the result of u
personal quarrel which had been going on
in their papers for long time.
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